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1ZZU The Vancouver Sun, Friday, October 1, 1993 VANCOUVER VANCOUVER 2 :4110074101111 LA rp-600, I ILI ILL 'antotivErgun ow' 0 RP 144t IX dw FxLIvI EL PRESENTS THE CA OMAN A la) A HUI MA Vorli 1 I BCTEL Film Festival Hotline: MI Ea PROGRAMME Charge by phone 44 685-8352 (12 9 p.m.) THE FIRST WEERIMID 685-8297 12 7 p.m.) IFjpo'AVIOcriztotiallil 4:30 pm Cinema ihaque. BEFORE I GET OLD (Canada) An outstanding collection of short films about the CUrICKIS experience of childhood, adolescence and burgeoning adulthood. These insightful and variously dark, nihilistic and hilarious films capture the underside of growing 4:30 pm Clnematheque IN THE GUTTER and OTHER GOOD PLACES AND THEM THAT'S NOT (Canada) Two remarkable documentanes on the politics of poveny and the social systems that function to maintain an underclass. Riveting social documents. 1 9:30 pm Ridge FONG SAI-YUK (Hong Kong) Hong Kong cinema doMg what it does best: fast-paced action comedy in period costume.

The plot is too convoluted to go into; suffice it to say that Yuen Kwai's film features Jet Li (star of the Once Oar a Time in China series). a mita of action, tramvestite pgs and wild lurches from comedy to tragedy and back. up. 01,44 I 0 4 i 7.41,, 7 A 7 pm Caprice A NEW LIFE (France) Olivier Assayas tells commonplace stories, rooted in harsh evelyday reality about the difficult lives of young people living somewhere on the edge of society. A twenty-year-old survivor of a broken home meets her half-sister for the first time; to-gether they sift through the past looking For renewed direction.

4:30 pm Hollywood THE NEED (Iran) An impressively sensitive tak about two deprival boys whose friendship it tested when they are forced into compeon at work. A moral dilenutia arises: should the better-011d the two quit and sacrifice his well-being for his friend? Well-wfinen, wonderfully actedhumanist filmmaking at its 9:30 pm Van Centre I SABINE (France) Philippe Faucon's acclaimed iuld deeply dressing dmonick of Agnes L'Herbier's (played with uncommon intensity by Catherine Klein) passage from runaway teenager, lost in dings and prostitution, to 32-yeu-okl AIDS victim, snuggling to tecord her fiercely brave last days in a diary. 4:30 pm Hollywood THE PUNK (Great Britain) Director Mike Same. best known for Myra Breckinridge. makes an impressive comeback with this gritty, visually shinning.

contemporary take on Romeo and Juliet. Young punk David meets the rich Rachel and romance blooms amidst the warring Punks and Rockers near London's Notting Hill Gate. 5 pm Van Centre 2 CHILDREN OF FATE UFE AND DEATH IN A SICIUAN FAMILY (USA) In 11, Robert M. Young and Michael Roemer made a documentarton Palermo slum life that focused on twenty-three-year-old mother of three and a battered wife of an alcoholic husband. Thirty years later.

Young's son picks up the thread of Angela's life and the result is a revelatory study of three generations of a family molded poverty. 7 pm Cinematheque ON MY BIRTHDAY and THE END OF THE WORLD (Portugal) High film cultureis more alive in Portugal than in any other nation near its size. Here are two of its leading filmmakers' contributions to The Four Ekments project: highly literate dramas from Joao Botelho (Air) and Joao Mario Grilo (Earth). High film cultureis more alive in Portugal than in any other nation near its size. Here are Iwo of its leading filmmakers' contributions to The Four Ekments project highly literate dramas from Joao Botelho (Kir) and Joao Mdrio Grilo (Earth).

9:30 pm Ridge NAKED (Great Britain.) Mike Leigh returns with a blackly comic study of die quintessential '90s anti-hem on a nocturnal odyssey through the backotets of London. "Shot through with sudden psychotic mood shifts from comedy to violence finally, a strangely moving love sioty, Naked dwarfs everything die director has yet doneVariety NAKED (Great Britain.) Mike Leigh returns with a blackly comic study of the quintessential anti-hem on a nocturnal odyssey through the backsotets of London. "Shot duough with sudden psychotic mood shifts, from comedy to violence b. finally, a sirangely moving love sioty, Nailed dwarfs everything die direc- tot has yet 10 pm Van Centre 2 PASSAGES (Germany) 'filmy An Ian's prizewinning first film is a haunting. revelatory look into the lives of a memorable group of adolescents who live in Germany's largest rehabilitation centre.

"Remarkable in its sustained atmosphere Variety 2 4 10 pM Van Centre 2 THE BLUE KITE (Hong KongChina) Banned in Chins Tian Duanphwmg's (Horse Thief) passionate film was a smash with audiences and efiti43 at Cannes It explores the political disasters of the first fifteen years of ruk, through the story of a woman who 111117i0 three times A humane. devastating fihn of dating political candour. .,,,.......44., i ra. 4.... fl' Afi, it 't f.

10 pm Van Centre 2 '1 yi, THE BLUE KITE (Hong KongChina) ti, 41 4 7 14 1.. '1 11 Banned in China, Tian Duanphwmg's (Horse Thiel) passionate film was ,...,1,.. r' 7- k4 14; a smash with .1.0 ....4 I. .,:,,4. ,4 th audiences and CT 1643 at Cams.

It explores the political disas- ...4.,..,., ten of the fust fifteen years of Commimist ruk, through the siory of a woman who IllarTieS three times. A humane, devastating film of chuing .1 EPolibr i fil. IF i .1 Ili it ill i I I il. I ii il it I i I II i ii ii. i i' I' 1 'I Midnight Cinernitheque TRAUMA (USA) From the king of the midnight moviemaken---Itallan horror kgend Dario Argentos (Susperia, Deep Red) new English-language duiller about a psychic young woman and a mucderer with a penchant for 7 pm Caprice ONLY DEATH COMES FOR SURE (GeorgiaRussia) Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the basis for this highly original and beati.

Wilily photographed in a small. isolated village in Russia about the conditions of those who live under totalitarian rule past and present. Twenty-nine-year old Marina Isunsumia makes a fine lea- lure deNt. NDAI, I OBE 4:30 pm Ridge WOMEN FROM THE LAKE OF SCENTED SOULS (Chine) CO-Witiliff Of the Golden Bear at Berlin this year, Xie Fet's (Girl from Hunan. Black Snow) new film finds him back in the villages of Notth China, back with questions of marital disaster and sexual fulfillment and back with a limpidly poetic visual style.

4:30 pm Ridge WOMEN FROM THE LAKE OF SCENTED SOULS (China CO-WilMel of the Golden Bear at Berlin this year, Xie Fei's (Girt front Hunan. Block Snow) new film finds him back in the villages of North China, back with questions of MAIM disaster and sexual fulfillment and Midnight Caprice FORTRESS (USAFrance) The year is 2013; acid rain bathes cities in toxic chemicah, nuclear accidents have made the landscape a lethal wilderness and humans are all but expendabledils is the setting for Stuart Gordon's (Re-Animator) action-packed adventure-thriller. Christopher Lambert stars as a man unjustly imprisoned in a super high-tech jailthe fortress. Midnight Caprice FORTRESS (USAFrance) 10 am Clnemotheque ON THE BRIDGE (USA) Filmmaker Frank PCM.S (The Swimmer, Diary of a Mad Housewife, Mommie Dearest) very personal response to his inoperable pmstate cancer is an intimate diary film by a restlessly creative mind. Informative and courageous without a uace of sentimentality.

7 pm Hollywood HOUSEHOLD SAINTS (USA) Tracey Ullman, Vincent D'Onofrio and Li li Taylor star in Nancy Savoca's (True Love) strangely humorous tale about a butcher's daughter living in New York's Little Italy, who sees ksus while ironing and decides to become a nun. Quirky and decidedly eccentric. 7 pm Clnematheque TIIAT WOMAN, THAT MAN (South Korea) Kim th-Seok's sex-warcoMedy is much darker in tone than his Marriage Story. Feuding neighbours drift into love with each other. then out again.

smart and very funny. With: For a proto-feminist drama about a secondhand car dealer who wants his future wife to be a virgin because he doesn't like "second-' bane things. 7 pm Hollywood 1 THE BURNING SEASON (Canada) A story of passion versus duty set in Canada and India. An independent young Indo-Canadian Woman learns to had her own path when'i faced with the repressive traditions of Indian society. From B.C.

director Harvey Cmsslandoln attendance: Cut and crew. 1 1 THE BURNING SEASON (Canada) A story of passion versus duty set in Canada and India. An indepen- dent young Endo-Canadian woman learns to find her own path when's faced with the repressive traditions of Indian society. From B.C. 4 director Harvey Cmsslandoln attendance: Cut and crew.

4:30 pm Van Centre I ANTONIO'S GIRLFRIEND (France) Claudie is an emotionally troubled young woman and Antonio's a good. natured Spanish construction worker who reaches out to her in Manuel Poirier's acclaimed debut. Keen observation of the everyday, a wistful undertone, and gentle hwnoura lovely film. Poirier's acclaimed debut. Keen observation of the everyday, a wistful undertone, and gentle hwnouta lovely film ISATURDWYKOCTOBERNj vrAn Noon Clnematheque CELESTIAL BURIAL (China) Part of an important series of documentaries on Tibet by Wen Pu lin and Jiang Yue this fascinating film explores the ancientmodem Tibetan Buddhist tradition of funerary rites at the Damu Celestial Burial Ground on the upper reaches of the Na river.

CELESTIAL BuHiAL (china) Part of an important series of documentaries on Tibet by Wen Pulin and Jiang Yue. this fascinating film explores the ancientmodem Tibetan Buddhist tradition of funerary rites at the Damu Celestial Burial Ground on the upper reaches of the Na river. 10 am Cinemathequa RIPA HITS THE SKIDS (Finland) Finnish master of droll comedy Aki Kaurismild produced this first feature from like-minded Christian Lindblad. Ripa, a scrotmgy would-be filnunaker hooked on beer, sex and idleness, sardonically narrates his own fall from grace. hunk.

funny and over-the-top. Noon Cinematheque FIRST LOVE (South Korea) A masterpiece from Lee Mytmg-Se about a schoolgirls crush on her teacher, which is reciprocated only in her imagination. It plays with levels of fantasy and degrees of "realism" with a sophistication the equal of Alain Resnais at his peak. 4:45 pm Van Centre 2 THE BALLAD OF urrLE JO (USA) 4 Suzy Amis' superlative performance dominates evety frame of Maggie Greenwald's thoughtful, often funny drama atOut a woman who disguises herself as a man in order to survive the hardships of the Old West This revisionist frontier saga also stars Bo Hopkins, Sir Ian McKean and Carrie Snodgrass. 12:30 pm Caprice JOEY BREAKER (USA) Steven Star r's jaunty movie ha's both humour and an unexpected seriousness.

Richard Edson (Stranger Than Paradise) has the title role as a fast-talking. career-obsessed New York taknt agent who falls in love with a young Jamaican (Cede ila Marley. Bob's daughter) and learns a lot about life. Smart. with a great reggae score.

tt it: 3- 10 am Cinematheque -N- RIPA HITS THE SKIDS (Finland) Finnish Mager of droll comedy Aid produced this first feature 4:45 pm Van Centre 2 from like-minded Christian Lindblad. Ripa, a scrotmgy would-be filnunak- 'j er hooked on beet sex and mess, sardomMily narrates his own fall from i 4 grace. Ironic, funny and over-the-top. THE BALLAD OF urrLE JO (USA) Suzy Antis' superlative performance dominates frame of Maggio 12:30 pm Caprice Greenwald thoughtful often ften furmy drama alydut a woman who disguises JOEY BREAKER (USA) 1 '114 -s Steven Starr jaunty movie his both humour and an unexpected seri. II lion I herself as a man in order to survive the hardships of the Old West This i 1 1 I 1:, 's I igt A mesimmeee from Lee mrmgse about a sehoolgirre mum on her tier saga also stars Bo Hopkins, Sir Ian McKean atul Carrie Noon Cinematheque FIRST LOVE (South Korea) Snodgrass.

1 l' teacher, which is reciprocated only in her imagination. It plays with levels ousness. Richard Edson (Stranger Than Paradise) has the title role as a fast -talking. career-obsessed New York talent agent who falls in '1, love with a young Jamaican (Cedella Marley. Bob's daughter) and Sr i teams a lot about life.

Smart with a great reggae score. i') I 1,4 r. of fantasy and degrees of "realism" with a sophistication the equal of Alain Resnais at his peak 4., I1 1 Yil 7 pm Caprice EVEN COWGIRLS GET THE BLUES (USA) Tom Robbins cult classic comes to the screen with lima Thurman as big. thumbed Sissy Hankshaw. hitchhiking her way to the Rubber Rose Ranch and then.

in cahoots with her fellow sisters, taking over die place. Gus Van Sam (My OM Private Idaho) directs and John Hun, Lorraine Bracco, Kano Reeves and Angie Dickinson co-star. pm CaPTICO EVEN COWGIRLS GET THE BLUES (USA) Tom Robbins cuh classic comes to the screen with lima Thummn as big. thumbed Sissy Hankshaw. hitchhiking her way to the Rubber Rose Ranch and then.

in cahoots widi her fellow sisters, taking over the place. Gus Van 2 pm Hollywood FRANOOIS TRUFFAUT: STOLEN PORTRAITS (France) Serge Toubiam and Michel Pascal use behind-the-scenes footage, clips from Truffaut's films and twenty-six interviews with family. friends and co-workers (among them Fanny Ardent. Ewa Truffaut. Gerard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Bertrand Tavernier) to explore the director's life and work.

2 pm Hollywood FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT: STOLEN PORTRAITS (France) Serge Toubiam and Michel Pascal use behind-the-scenes footage, clips from Truffaut's films and twenty-six interviews with family, friends and co-workers (among them Fanny Ardant Ewa Truffaut 7 pm Ridge THIRTY-TWO SHORT FILMS ABOUT GLENN GOULD (Canada) Marvelously inventive dramatclocumentary employs unorthodox techniques in its portrait of the great pianist. Interviews and recreations of plausible events converge to present a clearer picture of the man than a standard trio' pie could provide. In attendance: Director Francois Girard 7 pm Ridge THIRTY-TWO SHORT FILMS ABOUT GLENN GOULD (Canada) 12:30 pm Caprice HYENAS (Senegal) To the dusty heat of Colobane, a once dunning Senegalese village now shattered by poverty. Linguae retunts with fabulous wealth and a promise to save her people. But.

attached to this promise is a deadly bargain: Dramanthe lover who had betrayed a sixteen-year-old. pregnant LingulmInust be Based on a play by Friedrich 12 :30 pm Caprice Dramanthe lover who had betrayed a slineen -year-old, pregnant ILMgulmInust be Based on a play by Frkdrich Drineinnatt. pm Ridge MR. WONDERFUL (USA) In this bittersweet romantic comedy set iv i New York. Matt Di Hen .11,1 stars as a Con Edison worker who slowly realizes he's not over his es-wife (Annabel la Sciom), despite her involvement with a professor (William Hart) and his own relationship with a girlfriend from the 'hood (Mary-Loutse Parker).

Anthony Minghella (Truly. Madly. Deeply) directs. ri New York, Man Di lien .1, realizes he's not over his involvement with a professor with a girlfriend from the 7 inghella (Truly. 7 pm Cinemathsque SA-LIFE: DOCUMENTARY FILMS AND VIDEO DOCUMENTS, SARAJEVO 1992193 (UPDATED VERSION) (Bosnia) Desctibed by the filnunakers as "pictures of lovc courage, despair and crime: this compilation of footage shot by various filmmakers, students of film and amateurs since April 5, 1992, presents an odyssey that comes across as part evening news and pan honor movie.

Strong, compelling and shockingin attendance: Director Aden Kenovk 5A-urt: riLms ANL VILJLIJ 1.11.A;U MENTS, SARAJEVO 199293 (UPDATED VERSION) (Bosnia) Desctibed by the filnunakers is "pictures of love, courage, despair and CrilTle: this compilation of footage shot by various filmmakers, students of film and amateurs since April 5, 1992, presents an odyssey dust comes across as part evening news and pan honor movie. Strong, compelling and nee Director Aden Kenos 7 pm Van Centre 1 .1 BAD BEHAVIOUR (Great Britain) Reminiscent of Mike Leigh's improvisatory style. Les Blair's comedy of manners stars Stephen Rea (The Crying Game) and Sinead Cusack as a fortysomething couplebesieged by friends. business demands and identical twin plumbers decide to undergo mid-life at the same .1 )ry style. Les Blair's comedy ig Game) and Sinead Cusack friends.

business demands cide to undergo mid-life 7 pm Hollywood THE RED SQUIRREL (Spain) One of the big hits at t1Ie1992 VET was Julio Modems Vactur, Medem returns this year with a strikingly different follow-up, about and sometimes mesmerizing anti-macho parable in the form of a mystery comedy." A has-been rock musician persuades an amnesiac mystely woman that he is her lover. In attendance: Director Julio Medem I 1,,,,,,,,, -I, sow km; PM, i-L4rs'. 4, rPP, 4 tf 4' 1,.,.. )1" it Aii '4, 4, 4 4074,,, 4 1 7 pm Hollywood i11. -i- 1 THE RED SQUIRREL (Spain) 'k 'lb 0 of the bi hits at the1992 VET was Julio Medem's Vacas; Medem i i eii, ne ---r returns this year with a slake), different follow-up, about and sometimes A 1 mesmerizing a anti-macho parable in the form of a mystery comedy." A l' IT''''' has-been meh MUSICUM Persuades an amnesiac mYsteq woman that he is IP.

her lover. In a tte nda nee: Director Julio Medens -2 pm Ridge COMBINATION PLATTER (USA) Twenty-three-year-old Tony Chan ItSCS his family's restaurant in Queens as the setting for this comic view of American society as seen from the perspective of an illegal immigrantAvaiter. A low-key charmer, Chan's debut is an honest, realistic and funny account of the Americanization process. -2 pm Ridge COMBINATION PLATTER (USA) Twenty-three-year-old Tony Chan liSeS his family's restaurant in Queens as the setting for this comic view of American society as seen from the perspective of an ilkgal immigra ntiwarter A low-key charmer, Chan's debut is an honest, realistic and funny account of the Americanization process. 7 pm Van Centre 1 THE MUSIC OF CHANCE (USA) Acclaimed documentary filmmaket Philip Haas turns to fiction with this bitingly funny allegorical tale based on Paul Auster's celebrated novel.

A mismatched pair of young men (James Mandy Patinkin) lose everything in a poker game with two eccentric millionaires and are then kited into a bizarre slavery. In attendance: Director Philip Haan 7 pm Van Centre 1 THE MUSIC OF CHANCE (USA) Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Philip Haas turns to fiction with this bitingly funny allegorical tale based on Paul Auster's celebrated novel. A 1 in 7:30 pm Van Centre 2 AILEEN WIJORNOS: THE SELLING OF A SERIAL KILLER (Great Britain) Termed "the worlds first female serial killer," Aileen Wuomos has become the centre of a capitalist feeding frenzyfour feature films and six book deals are trying to cash in on her "fame Nick Broomfield documents the bizarre sideshow, revealing a defendant 1 who's culpable and a victim. One of the best documentafies of 1993, 9:30 pm Caprice MAN BITES DOG (BelgiurniFranceiNethertands) Guilty pleasure par excellence and one of the most heatedly discussed films of recent times, this very, very black comedy is about a serial killer whose charisma proves too much for a documentary film crewt 4 1G OF A SERIAL Hier." Aileen Wuomos has feature films her "fame Nick ow. revealing a defendant best documentaries of 1991,, coNetherlands) the most heatedly discussed comedy is about a serial )r a documentary film crevit 4 2 pm Van Centre 1 MAYA: THE ENCHANTING ILLUSION (India) Deepa Sahi is riveting in the title role of this Madame Bovary adapts-.

bon. The dreams and fantasies of a young bride become increasingly important to her when her maniage fails to live up to expectations. Ketan Mehta's film was the highlight of the Indian Film Festival in New Delhi earlier this year. New Vein) earner Inn year. 7:30 pm Van Centre 2 CHILDREN OF FATE: LIFE AND DEATH IN A SICILIAN FAMILY (USA) In 1961, Robert M.

Young and Michael Roemer made a documentary on Palermo slum life that focused on twenty-three-yearold Angela. a mother of three and a battered wife of an alcoholic husband. Thirty years later. Young's son picks up the thread of Angela's life and the result is a revelatory study of three generations of a family molded by poverty. 1:45 pm Ridge RAMAYANA: THE LEGEND OF PRINCE RAMA (IndiaJapan) A spectacular piece of animationbused on the classic lOth B.C.

Indian tectthat tells the legend of Pince Rama, a heroic incarnation of Lord Vishnu who may bring salvation amidst fantastic wan involving the forces of the world: man, monkeys. and mighty gods, 7 pm Ridge THE LOTUS EATERS (Canada) Sheila McCarthy and LH. Thomson star in this delightful B.C. comedy se in 1964. The cock-eyed normality of island life is disrupted by a old with with a book of magic spells and a headmaster with a mid-life crisis.

Direcied by Paid Shapiro. attendance: Cast and Crew Twysi i 1:45 pm Ridge I. (471.. THE ivi.nBoft.icie.: 1,:,:,...4....:064..::.11,.. h.

.,0::,,,:11. tr'll i Lord Vishnu who may bring salvation amidst fantastic wan tnvo forces of the world: man, monkeys, mid mighty gods, IL 61i1 r4. i'i, NV qtWi.S.;; 4 if.F..;;,:. ll A 7 pm Ridge 1.4-'7:::::.; THE LOTUS EATERS (Canada) 1 set, tol.) :4 mShed. .19641 M.

ThcCielthby onf Island life old with a book of spells and a headmaster with a mid-life crisis. wier 2:30 Caprice TANGO ARGENTINO (Serbia) An audience favourite at film festivals everywhere. director Goran Paskatievic's alternately touching and harsh, nostalgic and ironic story tells of a charming ten-year-old negotiating his way around his eccentric family and townspeople. 9:30 pm Cinematheque EsHAJI ON THE BEACH (Great Britain) Director Gurinder Chadha makes her feature debut with this winning, story of an assortment of middk-class Asian women from Birmingham on a day trip to the tattered seaside resort of A sunny, very welt-written, cross-cultural comedy with bite. 'Rain) are debut with this winning, ilan women from seaside resort of I comedy with bite.

9:30 pm Hollywood ROMEO IS BLEEDING (USA) Gary Oldman, Lena Olin. Annabella Sciorra and Juliette Lewis star Peter Medak's (The Krays) cool and chaotic film. described as Goodfellas written by Goethe. Oldman is an NYPD cop who successfully plays both sides until a garter-belted assassin (Olin) comet along and throws his life even more out-of-whack and Juliette Lewis star 'tic film. described as is an NYPD cop who sue-cited assassin (Olin) comet if-whack 2:30 pm Climmatheque THE SACRED SITE OF ASCETICISM (Chins) Wen Pu lin and Duan finchuan's remarkable independent documental), about a Buddhist retreat in Tibet, counterpointing material shot in 1989 with footage from 1992.

A respectful. questioning film that is nonethekss acutely aware of cultural differences between the Chinese and the Tibetan ways of life. 9:15 pm Van Centre FAREWELL TO MY CONCUBINE (Hong Kong, CHINA) Co-winner of the Golden Palm at Cannes. Chen Kaige's (Life on a String) Lag-budget drama traces the friendship of two Peking Opera students over die span of fifty years of Beijing history, beginning in the 1920s. Gong Li co-gars.

9:30 pm CAPRICE LA VIE DE BOHEME (Finland) With an acerbic sense of humour, mordant wit. and mix of the bittersweet and the tragicomic. Aki Kaurismaki takex -revenge" on Poccinfs La Three down-and-out artistes in Paris drink. chase the franc. avoid creditors and get mixed up with some country girls in this sardonic picaresque.

7 pm Van Centre I SONATINE (Japan) "Beat" Takeshi's (Takeshi Kitano, Boiling Poim) major new film is at once wild, off-the-wall gangster opus and a philosophical comedytriller. A group of yOiliZa, sent to tropical Okinawa to take sides in a gang war, realize they are being set up and whik away their remaining time by playing games and enjoying the local colour. Funny, exciting, and finally electrifmg. 2 pm Hollywood AMERICAN HEART (USA) Jeff Bridges and Edward Furlong star in Martin Bells superb dmia about an ex-con lathei trying to make good for his neglected teenaged son. A.

powerful film with great performances that makes a host of observations about the sorry state of urban America 2:30 pm Van Centre 2 HOUSEHOLD SAINTS (USA) Tracey Ullman, Vincent D'Onotrio and Lill Taylor star in Nancy Savoca's (Ime Love) strangely humomus tale about a butcher's daughter living in New York's Little Italy, who sees Jesus while iron-Mg and decides to become a nun. ()unity and decidedly eccentric. 4, 1 )- -3 44, .,,,,1,. -9, -d, 4 :7 7:30 Van Centre 2 DRUMROLL (RussiaFrance) knottily funny and packed with invention, Sergei Ovc silent pas-, tiche is set in a crumbling modem-day Russia. Snowy wastes and pungy urban landscapes compete as the main charactere drummer in a group that plays at hmeralsembarks upon an odyssey that becomes a pottait of contemporary Russia's social 4 pm Ridge THE BLUE KITE (Hong KongChina) Banned in China.

Tian nuangzhuang's Morse Thief) passionate film was a smash with audiences and critics at Cannes. It explores the political disasters of the first fifteen years of Communist rule. through the story of a woman who manic' three times. A humane. devastating film of daring political candour.

9:30 pm Cinematheque WESTERN LIVING (Canada) Six absorbing Short films from talented Western Canadian directors that present a paniculady skewed and offbeat aspect of the Western Canadian psyche. Directors include Ann Marie Rerning, Bli21 Stockton and actor Kyk McCulloch. 2 pm Van Centre 'I DON'T JUST WANT YOU TO LOVE ME (Germany) Hans Gunther Pflauth's exemplary documentary on Rainer Werner Fambinder sets out to carefully detail the connection between cause imd effect in Fassbinder's life and work. With Andrea Ivrea'. Hanm Schygulla, Volker SchlOnclorfl, Michael Balthus among whew 2:30 pm Cinemetheque STELLA POLARIS (Norway) A family fives beneath Stella Polaris, the Pole SW, on the northern coast of Norway.

KIWI Erik Jensen traces their lives from WWII through the pie-Kid day, creating what is once a gothical fabk about die treatment of this austerely beautiful place and a work oldie pwest cinema. 2:30 pm Cinematheque STELLA POLARIS (Norway) A family lives beneath Stella Polaris, the Pole Star. oo the northeni coast of Norway. Kiwi Erik seinen vices their lives nom wwn dvough to the pre- sent day, creating ghat is once a cobtical fabk about the treatment of this austerely beautiful place and a go oldie purest cinema. FA I 9:30 pm Ridge Le NU ties atones (Canada, 100 min.) Popular film personality Paule Baillargeon directs this affecting tale of it young girl who longs for the return of her errant father.

But when he does return, it is as a woman, teaching Camille a lesson in fife's unpredictability. 9:30 pm Van Centre 1 BEIJING BASTARDS (Hong KongChina) Thing Yuan's (Mama. VIFF '92) second film is without precedent in Chinese cinema. It glides from documentary to fiction to fantasy while following the travails of a pOup of young people in the lock music scene. China's most important rock star.

Cal Juan. co-pioduced, co-wrote and stars Popular this affecting tale of a' ler errant father. But when ig Camille a lesson in Chins) 51m is without precedent in ry to fiction to fantasy young people in the lock star. Cul Juan. co-produced, 2:30 pm Van Centre 2 LEY LINES (Canada) Beginning as an exploration into her family's pew and history, local filmmaker Patricia Grubeh's inventive documental, becomes a meditation on the fascination of learning where we come from asid ao acts as I template foe all ow histories.

9:30 pm Caprice ZERO PATIENCE (Canada) John Greyson's musical about sex, bigotry, science and AIDS. Based on the theory of Patient Zero, the individual blamed tiff bringing AIDS to North America, the film sets about exploding myths and stereotypes about homosexuality and the AIDS attendance: Director Jobe Greyest 9:30 pm Cinematheque THE OAK (RomaniaFrance) Lucian peat film is a riveting, atuschic, blackly humomus journey ino Romania during the tut days of Ceausescu. A farce "that rattles MU sustained Ivry.J. Hoberman, Village Yoke 9:30 pM Caprice ZERO PATIENCE (Canada) 7t.rn, Jobe GtM1011.1 musical about see. Meow.

sclelme and RMS. Based On the XU.eI theory of Patient the individual blamed fiff bringing AMS North t1, '14g14 America, the film sem about explabne myths and stereotypes about hoot. 2-30 pm an re Cant 2 sexcabty and the AIDS epodentich attendance: Director Jobe Grayson LEY LINES (Canada) 4.ar, Berton' Mg as an exploranon into her family's put and hisamy, local film- 9:30 pm makm Patricia Gruben's inventive documenbuy becomes a meclitation on Cinniathoclue 444 the fucirniion of learning where we come from end so aces as THE OAK (RomantaFrance) foc all our Lucian Pintilie's peg film is a riveting, anarchic, blackly hurnototn journey 1 0 ino Romania during the last days of Cengescu. A farce "that midis with sustained Doberman, Village Voice 2:45 pm Cinonathoque WOLF, WOLF' (ITALY) Three siblings rediscover their own ties while sesithing for their anidfather who's gone missing' Carlo Verdone's film is an atmospheric, heartfelt journey in which bitterness eventually gives way to understanding. 10 pm Van Centre 2 THE OLYMPIC SUMMER (Germany) The sununer Of 1936: a butcher's apprentice sets out by bike for the Berlin This technically innovative black-and-white film, hom young director Gordian Maugg is a highly evocative rendering, of a young mans journey from innocence to experience.

19) sets out by bike for the 'give black-and-white filet ighly evocative rendering, to experience. 4:30 Van CoMte THE ESCORT (Italy) Ricky Tognazzi's third fihn lopped the box-office charts 11 Italy thanks to its skill in capturing the mutiny's chaotic politicel climate in an entertaining action format full of strong characterizations and relentless tension. The focus is low young dedicated policemen who risk the lives prosecting Mafia targets. 4:30 Van Centre I 9:30 pm Hollywood SAY A LITTLE PRAYER (Australia.) A candy-coloured "odd couple" movie, compkte with musical numbea, from Richard Lowenstein (Dogs in Space). A lonely eleven-year-old boy it fascinated by his neW friend: a twenty-year-old drug-addicted woman who lives a hippie life.

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